qualmishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkwɑːmɪʃ/
• 韻: -ɑːmɪʃ

形容詞

qualmish (comparative more qualmish, superlative most qualmish)

1. Affected with qualms; queasy, nauseous. [from 16th c.]
   • 1691, Tho[mas] Shadwell, The Scowrers. A Comedy, […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

     I am plaguy qualmiſh this morning, vve drunk ſvvingingly laſt night, vvhat did vve do? tell me the Hiſtory.

   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 77:

     I awoke rather qualmish, but, dressing and going upon deck, the sharp air recovered me.

   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 162:

     Then, how comparatively sweet was everything on board - no paint, no tar, no new rope, (vilest of smells to the qualmish!) no grease, or oil, or varnish; but instead of these, bamboo and rattan, and coir rope and palm thatch; pure vegetable fibres, which smell pleasantly if they smell at all, and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest.

   • 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 53:

     I had sought out a dark corner, since by now I did indeed feel rather qualmish inside my yellow skin.

派生語

• qualmishly
• qualmishness